So, to whoever picks your front-page articles, why did you bury a story about how state education department has manipulated the MEAP scores to look better to parents than they really are — scores that are not nearly good enough for many kids to get jobs after graduation — for a story about "170 take the plunge?" Do you do these kinds of stories to gather readership, as you believe good news sells better than news we all need to hear?

In the story "State again fails to deliver hard truth about schools," Dave Murray writes: "Statewide, just 9.1 percent of black students were proficient in eighth-grade math" "and "Statewide, just 16.3 percent of Hispanic eighth-graders met the math mark, and that drops to 2.3 percent in Kalamazoo." If this is not front-page news, what is?

If you keep picking these kind of front-page stories, or the multiple repeat stories you ran last week about hazards of texting/cell phone use while driving; I will be looking for a better place to get my news.